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“Lived poverty” on the increase in Tanzania – Afrobarometer on Tanzania #1
“It’s all rosy for Tanzania,” runs the Daily News headline. It’s not about media freedom, the state of public services, political stability or religious tolerance, but another vitally important...
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A tight political race in 2015: Afrobarometer on Tanzania #2
Several times recently on this blog (e.g. here) I have referred to Tanzania’s increasingly competitive, and hot, political environment. But I have had to use anecdotes and newspaper articles as...
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Nyerere Day, big boots and celebrations
Two cartoons in Nipashe newspaper offer commentary on the state of Tanzania 14 years after the death of Mwalimu Nyerere: From Nipashe 14/10/13 “A celebration or a memorial?” “A celebration, my...
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Where is the report on Form 4 exam failures? It’s in The Citizen, Mwananchi
Yesterday, The Citizen told us it had the “Real causes behind 2012 Form 4 failures“. Mwananchi led with “Janga la elimu” (Tragedy of education). Both articles published some of the findings from the...
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Bold commitments, disappointing delivery: Five challenges for Tanzania and...
President Kikwete at OGP Summit in Brazil, April 2012. Photo from ikulublog.com Tanzania has made strong statements about the Open Government Partnership (OGP). It has also promised to deliver. When...
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Right to Information in Tanzania: now the real work begins
President Kikwete made a bold promise last week, to enact a law that obliges the Tanzanian government to provide any information requested by citizens, with the exception of information relating to...
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“They should be beaten” has begun? A little incident in Ludewa
“Wapigwe tu”, said Tanzania’s Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda, back in June – “They should be beaten.” He was responding a question prompted by the police response to protests in Mtwara region, but he...
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Collected articles on sacking of Zitto Kabwe from Chadema positions
Zitto Kabwe UPDATED: Sunday 9.45pm EAT Click here to go direct to this update Or here for Saturday’s links For articles etc. from Monday (25/11) onwards, see this new post. - – - Zitto Kabwe, a hugely...
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More articles, tweets, etc. on Zitto’s sacking from Chadema positions
This follows an earlier post with articles, etc. from Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Updated Tuesday, 2pm EAT – click here to jump to the new section Monday 25th November Front pages, via millardayo.com:...
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CCM Hoyee! Zitto and Chadema in a mess. As usual, it’s all about 2015
Cartoon from wavuti.com We all saw it coming, and yet we were surprised when it came. Zitto Kabwe was sacked by his party late last week. No longer will Zitto be Chadema’s deputy secretary, nor deputy...
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Public opinion on the union question: from Scotland to Zanzibar
“Happy birthday to the Union, 47 years old” - Cartoon from Nipashe newspaper, April 2011 A referendum is coming up next year in Scotland, with a simple question proposed: “Should Scotland be an...
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Dr Asha-Rose Migiro sees something of real rural Tanzania
It’s quite a step from Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations to walking through the mud of rural Njombe. Yet that is what Dr Asha-Rose Migiro has done. She left her position at the UN last...
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Freedom of Information on DFID’s role in BAE Project in Tanzania? Bado
image from http://www.parentalguide.org/article-family-road-trip.html I submitted a Freedom of Information request with the Department for International Development (DFID) last month. I’m asking for...
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On the shooting, or otherwise, of messengers. Plus some cartoons
“Don’t shoot the messenger!” we say in English. The Waswahili have it different: Mjumbe hauawi, the messenger is not killed. In English, it’s a plea, recognising that in anger we can so easily misplace...
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Talking ’bout a (data) revolution? Then let’s make it truly revolutionary
A version of this post was published on post2015.org, in their blog series, ‘What kind of ‘data revolution’ do we need for post-2015?’ - – - – - Don’t you know, they’re talking ’bout a revolution,...
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Chart of the Week #3: Open or closed voting, via RaiaMwema newspaper
RaiaMwema published an interesting bit of data journalism today, on it’s front page: Open or closed? – From RaiaMwema 26/3/14 It’s the chart on the left that’s most interesting – it shows that just...
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What do Tanzanians really think of the three governments idea?
From The Citizen 18/3/2014 Justice Warioba: “Of the almost 38,000 citizens who gave their views on the Union, 19,000 expressed an opinion on the form of the Union. The breakdown of these statistics...
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Tanzania’s ongoing water sector mess
Twaweza has a new policy brief out*, on a subject that’s close to my heart: water supply in Tanzania. Money flows, water trickles is the title, and it’s hard to argue with that. A lot of money has been...
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Chart of the Week #4: Distribution of new teachers in Tanzania’s Primary Schools
HakiElimu published a statement last week on the allocation of new primary school teachers to different regions, including this chart: Pupil teacher ratios in Tanzanian primary schools, by region, 2013...
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Chart of the week #5: Poverty, inequality and learning outcomes in Tanzania
From my colleagues at Twaweza this week, a set of four charts showing how learning outcomes vary between poor and non-poor children: Inequality in learning outcomes. Source: Jones et al So what does it...
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